I feel like the efficacy is debatable. It reduces severe symptoms but more and more vaccinated are contracting it daily even in places of 95+% vaccinated so there's a good dialogue to be had here
> It reduces severe symptoms but more and more vaccinated are contracting it daily even in places of 95+% vaccinated
That's what the world living with COVID looks like. Given the Delta's estimated reproduction number (5~8), there's no herd immunity achievable in a near future. Then make it less severe and transmissible so we can handle it without strict lockdown and overloading public health infrastructure. At least until we get a universal vaccine against COVID.
The original hope was that vaccinated people wouldn't get it at all, as per any other vaccine. Delta proved for this to not to be the case, unfortunately.
summerlight|4 years ago
That's what the world living with COVID looks like. Given the Delta's estimated reproduction number (5~8), there's no herd immunity achievable in a near future. Then make it less severe and transmissible so we can handle it without strict lockdown and overloading public health infrastructure. At least until we get a universal vaccine against COVID.
ipqk|4 years ago
honkdaddy|4 years ago
grillvogel|4 years ago